Messages from Recruiters on LinkedIn

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From time to time, I get messages from 3rd party recruiters on LinkedIn who say they have an open position at a local real estate company (they don't name the company) that they'd love to talk to me about.

Why is it that they don't name the company who they're recruiting for? Would a 3rd party recruiter for a top REPE shop, developer, or REIT go about things this way? I feel like if I was recruiting on behalf of a big name real estate firm I'd tell the potential hiree who I was working for off the bat to get them interested.

Fugue · Accepted Answer

Most of the time when I've been hit up by a legit firm, someone from the firm reaches out to me directly (with a firm email handle). This was the case for Goldman, Two Sigma, Point72, etc.

I have had other very legit firms hire headhunters, but in a good proportion of those samples the recruiter made no game about telling me who the role was with. My impression is just that buy side shops rarely have the desire to dedicate enough resources for a robust full time recruitment team.

td12 · Answer

in my experience, recruiters who reach out to talk but BS when you ask about the role or hiring company are trying to:
-have call quotas they need to fill or some other metric
-fishing for market intel (may ask your current salary expectations, etc)
-want access to your network
-you are plan B,C,D, etc
-combination of above

for context, i dont work in RE but this is generically fair for many recruiters

shermanmccoy14 · Answer

Currently at a MF REPE (acq).

That's pretty much how recruiters/headhunters operate in general - it's how they make their money, and it wouldn't really benefit them if they name their clients so that you can leapfrog over them and apply directly yourself.

However, as someone who landed this spot via HH and has worked here for a little while, I'll have to say this seems pretty typical of how these type of firms operate recruiting wise. We simply don't have time to screen recruits ourselves since we run so lean (70 ppl firm, non-existent HR dept lol), and +90% of our Acq.

bolo up · Answer

I always assumed it was because they didn't have exclusivity on role and didn't want you going around them - and them losing commission as a result.

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